excluded
your secret language
I’ll never know
or understand
~
~
postpartum
spontaneous coronary
artery dissection
~
I held our newborn
watching you
~
surrendering, she asked,
“what’s this all about?
closed my eyes, sighed,
“become comfortable in doubt.”
~
tubes, machines
fast-forward-etch-a-sketches
seismographic skyscrapers
~
so hard
to talk
much easier in code
~
~